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Guest Artists
1988 Dizzy Gillespie
1989 Maynard Ferguson,Tal Farlow,Kenny Davern
1990 Lew Soloff
1991 Clark Terry,Slide Hampton
1992 Phil Woods
1993 louis Bellson
1994 Arturo Sandoval
1995 Byron Stripling, Louis Bellson
1996 Allen Vizzutti, Denis DiBlasio
1997 David Garibaldi
1998 Bill Watrous
1999 Bobby Shew
2000 Jeff Jarvis
2001 Mike Smith
2002 Steve Turri
2003 Butch Miles
2004 Bob Mintzer
2005 Claudio Roditi
2006 Randy Brecker
2007 Dave Weckl
2008 Carl Saunders
2009 Wayne Bergeron

  
 

The Lakewood Jazz Ensemble

This is one of the premier big bands on the east coast. Comprised of 20 professional musicians from NY, NJ, MD, and Pa. They have performed and recorded with jazz artists Maynard Ferguson, Slide Hampton, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, David Garibaldi, Phil Woods, Al Cohn, Lew Tabackin, Urbie Green, Bill Watrous, Dizzy Gillespie, Arturo Sandoval, Allen Vizutti , Bobby Shew, Byron Stripling, Lew Soloff, Tal Farlow, Mike Smith, Kenny Davern, Bob Mintzer, Claudio Roditi and Red Rodney, Dave Weckl and Carl Saunders.

Music Spectacular Jazz Festival

0ver 1,000 elementary, middle and high school students from New Jersey and Pennsylvania converged on the Strand Theater for a music assembly about jazz with a world famous jazz artist and the Lakewood Jazz Ensemble.  The students will be guests of the Lakewood Jazz Ensemble for the annual 11 hour Music Spectacular Jazz Festival.  Previous performances have featured Maynard Ferguson, Dizzy Gillespie, Lew Soloff, Clark Terry, Slide Hampton, Phil Woods, Louis Bellson, Arturo Sandoval, Byron Stripling, Allen Vizzutti, David Garibaldi, Bill Watrous, Bobby Shew, Steve Turre and Butch Miles, Bob Mintzer, Claudio Roditi and Dave Weckl.  Students were bussed from tri-state high schools representing an audience that filled every seat in the Strand Theater.

            The Lakewood Jazz Ensemble is a community arts program sponsored by the Township of Lakewood. Comprised of twenty outstanding musicians, the band rehearses and performs regularly under the expert direction of Director, Wilbur Wittemann. Following a 10:30 a.m. performance, high school jazz bands from area schools performed for clinics and adjudication.  All Stars student musicians selected from each of the bands performed three selections as the opening act at the 7:30 p.m. show. 

The 2008 Featured Guest Artist was:

Carl Saunders

http://www.carlsaunders.com/

Check out Carl's world class performance of "Now Playing" from from the 10:30am concert in the audio highlights below!

 

Music Spectacular 2009 will feature:
WAYNE BERGERON!
11 HOURS OF BIG BAND JAZZ WITH ONE THE WORLDS GREATEST TRUMPET PLAYERS!

 


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